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The long dark is one of my favorite games of all time and I have to say, I don’t know how you can say just the cover photo looks similar. Here are some very similar things I noticed:
- You have a picture of an in game menu that looks exactly like TLD
- The way the flare and torches are handled is wildly similar, especially in your video where you are holding off wolves.
- That frozen body with snow all over it? It literally looks like it was copy pasted from TLD.
- You mention that there will be two modes, story and endless, very much like TLD too. I would wave that as a coincidence if everything else, including the name of the game, feel like a rip of TLD.
I can’t just look at these things and think it is a coincidence, they are all so similar.
I would have been more likely to wishlist and had less of a negative reaction if you:
- Didn’t act like there is nothing similar between the games and owned up to the fact you were inspired by such a masterpiece of a game.
- Actually was bringing something new to the table here, most of your trailer is showing everything I know from TLD, if you have new proprietary systems and ideas, like cooking why aren’t you showcasing them? All I see is an animation for cooking.
- The game looks really rough at the moment, and I respect the ambition. However, when I seen 2024 as the release date and this is what there is on show, I can only assume the rest of the game lacks the same polish.
I do wish you luck, but in my opinion as someone from your likely target audience I would not purchase your game.
I would agree with your last statement, but in the case of Xbox i think it is by design. They already excitedly talk about windows handhelds being the future and its because the console market has almost always been a loss, even back to the Sega selling massively under production cost to try and take ground from Nintendo. Games were always what made the profit.
In the case of Xbox, their business model for a long time has been moving to a live service streaming model, i don’t think they want to be in the console market. If they can move their app on all kinds of devices, they can skip the investment of the console and instead focus on what the real profit driver was all along.